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"The objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the extent and nature of poverty in urban areas in transition countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, providing particular attention to the disparities within urban areas between capital cities and...
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"This study looks at the experience of integrated urban upgrading in a low-income neighborhood of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community participation playing a major role in the design and...
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"In 1986 the World Bank prepared a strategy for low-income housing in developing countries. This work grew out of the Bank's efforts to support the urban poor through an extensive housing assistance program that was launched by Bank President McNamara's speech on urban poverty. By that time, the...
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"In recent years an extensive body of literature has emerged on the definition, measurement, and analysis of poverty. Much of this literature focuses on analyzing poverty at the national level, or spatial disaggregation by general categories of urban or rural areas, with adjustments made for...
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The poor urbanize faster than the population as a whole. But experience across countries suggests that a majority of the poor will still live in rural areas long after most people in the developing world live in urban areas
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mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college … probability of becoming a mother each year by 7.3 percent for women who have completed at least primary education, and 5.6 percent … for women with at least a secondary degree. These results (robust to a wide array of specifications) are of crucial …
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"Kenya has long had a reputation of being politically risky, manifested in corruption, uncertainty about policies, and … the importance of political connections in doing business. Kenya began its economic liberalization in 1993. Reform picked …
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paper exploits this feature of the data for Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. The analysis yields two … remains high. These results suggest that extramarital sexual activity among cohabiting women, whatever its causes, is a …
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of country relevant results, four important findings can be generalized. First, married women who engage in extra …-marital sex are less likely to use condoms than single women when doing so. Second, having been in successive marriages is a …
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